英国文学史第二讲：english-renaissance-and-shakespeare.pptVIP

英国文学史第二讲：English-Renaissance-and-Shakespeare 英国文学史第二讲：English-Renaissance-and-Shakespeare 英国文学史第二讲：English-Renaissance-and-Shakespeare The English Renaissance I. Background of English Renaissance. 1. Religious influence: 2. the English Bible: 3. the economic development II. The Renaissance and Humanism. 1. Birth in Italy 2. Stretching to England 3. The Flourishing of literature 4. Drama- the highest glory of English Renaissance 英国文学史第二讲：English-Renaissance-and-Shakespeare 1337-1453: the Hundred Years’ War ( btw England France ) 1455-1485: the Wars of the Roses ( btw Lancaster York)( their badges are roses) 1485-1509: Henry VII founded Tudor Dynasty, monarchy which met the needs of the rising bourgeoisie. 1509-1547: Henry VIII the Reformation( religious guise, political essence) which broke with Rome, ? new dogma known as Protestantism. 英国文学史第二讲：English-Renaissance-and-Shakespeare 1553-1558: Queen Mary – Counter-Reformation – hundreds of Protestants got burned as heretics. 1558-1603: Queen Elizabeth ended the bloody religious perse-cution. She made such reforms as more compatible with the monarchy and as would be accepted by as many people as possible, while she avoided the more uncompromising and democratic forms of Protestantism. ? “church settlement” of Elizabeth. 英国文学史第二讲：English-Renaissance-and-Shakespeare Latin Bible, used by Catholic churches.  Translation to English, during struggle between Protestantism and Catholicism, the 1st complete English Bible, trs. By John Wycliffe(1324?-1384) In 1611, the King James Bible, authorized version,spreading fast, the Authorized English Bible colored the style of the English prose for 300 years or more, the English Bible has rooted into the English language, English literature and English life. The English Bible 英国文学史第二讲：English-Renaissance-and-Shakespeare The economic development 3. the economic development: (1) the Enclosure Movement(15th century)? seize land (2) the commercial Expansion(16th c